Political Reorganization of the Papal States

Name: Political Reorganization of the Papal States
Start: 1417
End: 1420

Type Event Region Europe Time 1417–1420

After Pope Martin V was elected in 1417, the Catholic Church ended the Great Schism, and the Papal States faced reconsolidation in central Italy.

Timeline

1417Constance · GermanyOddone Colonna was elected pope as Martin V, restoring a single papal authority in the Western Church. The new pope immediately began planning the Curia's return to Rome and the territorial reintegration of the Papal States, laying the foundation for the reorganization of the Italian political landscape.
1418–1419Central Italy · Papal StatesMartin V allied with Florence and others to counter the encroachment of Ladislaus, King of Naples, on Romagna and the Marche. Through military alliances and diplomatic pressure the Curia contained separatism and gradually recovered the suzerainty lost during the schism.
1419–1420Rome · Papal StatesAfter moving from Constance to Florence, the pope returned in 1420 to the deserted city of Rome, rebuilding the Curia's administrative institutions and the system of local governors, reforming taxation and church estates, and inaugurating the revival and expansion of the Papal States in the fifteenth century.